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[Kimiko]

Star Crusade - parts 1 and 2, by

Check out his gallery; it has a lot of great images.

[PLA]

[Skele Von Mann]

forum mvp

wwwhat is that


it sounds scary



also i hate how i can see both turns of this gif

[Ninten]

[Skele Von Mann]

gideon is sure happy to see scott

[PLA]

[Ninten]

So, we already had a bunch of highschoolers (from SMT If) fighting evil before it was cool.



Someone make this picture more hipster.

[Trifkin]

[zamisk]

really? It's clearly spinning to the left for me, can't see it any other way.

[Yoonah]

I have to manually turn my head to see it spin the other way @.@

[PLA]

It's only changing from side to side. Then you imagine the leg-/whatever-blob going behind or in front of the other leg-/torso-/arm-blob. You might as well call it going through. The heel-blob tipping through the rest of the foot-blob and so forth. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Kimiko]

You're right, I can see it both ways now. I have to look away for a bit to have it flip though.

[scy]

It's a pretty "simple" illusion in the sense that ... well, it's not three dimensional. You're filling in parts of it to give depth to it. Much like the Necker cube:


As for what it means ... dunno yet. It's more a testament to how the brain and vision are treated rather than the more commonly said "LEFT BRAIN RIGHT BRAIN" nonesense. With practice, for lack of a better word, you can flip it almost on demand. Blinking, shifting your focus, perspective change, etc. can do it.

[Kimiko]

Yeah, I figured as much when I realized it could be flipped. Of course, a simple cube of just twelve lines is easier to flip mentally than a complex human figure that's constantly in motion.

[PLA]

It's more or less plausible that your dominant eye just happens to spend most of its time on one side of the animation. That would be a binocular vision thing, rather than a my hippie mind gives me a special personality thing.

On an irrelevant note, I remember reading about a study years ago suggesting that doves need to tilt their heads in order to grok horizontal asymmetry.